Generations of school children in Marietta have learned how in 1788, 48 men floated down the Ohio River aboard the flatboat called the Adventure Galley to start
Generations of school children in Marietta have learned how in 1788, 48 men floated down the Ohio River aboard the flatboat called the Adventure Galley to start
One of the prettiest towns I have visited in the United States sits on the rolling, grassy banks at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers. Brick homes and
Built in 1918, the W.P. Snyder Jr. is the last of its kind: a steam-powered sternwheeler towboat that hauled coal from the mines to the steel mills of the Monongahela and Ohio River valleys. Now a museum ship and National Historic Landmark berthed in Marietta Ohio, the Snyder's steel hull was in dire need of replacement. This is the saga of how the Snyder was towed almost 150 miles from its berth in Marietta down the Ohio River to the McGinnis Shipyard at South Point, where the old corroded hull was removed and replaced.